i know boyo. on the news and the stories that shaped the week here cranes capital braces for a million man anti-government march the ukrainian opposition refers to as a last chance after the government earlier survived a no confidence vote in parliament. as western politicians found the flames of the protests flocking to kiev to pledge their support for the crowds the government spent. in the case of david versus goliath a tiny romanian village fighting to get an energy giant chevron off of its land. protestors from our main village claim a small victory against a major us oil company that's exploring for shale gas near their home but the corporate giant is still looking to win the war. as people across the globe mourn the death of nelson mandela we'll look at how the anti-apartheid leader's image has changed over the years. and

a special swedish relationship it's been revealed the scandinavian country has been helping america spied on russia's leadership. start coming to you live from the russian capital and marina welcome to the program now ukraine's opposition is calling for a million people to join anti-government protests in kiev on sunday for a rally that's feared to further heighten tensions in the capital opposition leaders also say they will not talk to authorities unless the government steps down protests have gripped for more than two weeks now with a near revolutionary mood fueled by the support of some western politicians energies or in english to reports the only way in is not the only one neighbor seeing anti-government anger on that street but for some reason cleaves

independence square has captured the minds of politicians from europe. and you west have seen a veritable parade of them here on seymour running out what's with the opposition leaders they are in sometimes it'll take you to the states to speak for the crowds and yet few seem to have made the pass to hear it from both sides from the country's leaders and their supporters. plan from an assistant secretary of state we stand with the people of ukraine who see their future in europe and want to bring their country back to economic health and unity to former polish president the supporters of euro integration must remain firm and seize the momentum of the protest this is the only way they can get you know coach to make concessions and current members of the european parliament which are all civil society and democratic opposition in its claim to have possibility for the nation to express its will and saudis which means every election what began as a pro e.u.

push descended into an out and out attack on the leadership the usual buzzwords of democracy justice and the will of the people were interspersed with not so subtle calls for a president they can acquire which to admit has been beaten this is clear here it's an internal affairs arsalan hodge and they're not even hiding more so this is something that's should be unacceptable. as a democratic standard widely seen as a clear breach of diplomatic conduct it also raised questions in moscow. but i can imagine how our german partners would have felt if russia's foreign minister decided to attend a rally that was being held against german room i don't think they would consider it a friendly step meeting with opposition members is one thing but taking part in rallies that's interference in domestic affairs at the early in the week the government survived a no confidence vote in the ukrainian parliament was immune from. defeated by the

democratic process. opposition m.p.'s went home to block the stage installing parliament. outside protest leaders called on people to take over as many civic offices as possible what should have been a public debate on the pros and cons of the friendship has descended into a foreign fuelled meddling to boost in opposition with a different axe to grind it a go go r.t. . as anti-government protests in ukraine in capital grow so do the rallies in support of blocking the trade deal with the thousands of pro-government activists descended on the capital and towns across the east of the country to make their voice heard recent polls suggest ukraine sharply divided on the issue of e.u. integration with more than seventy percent of people in the west of the country favoring the deal while the pro e.u. mood is shared by less than thirty percent of people in the east a prominent foreign affairs alice dr she says in the unlikely case of revolution

people in the east will not sit idly by. if there is a pro e.u. neo orange revolution there would be a pro customs union pro russian counter-revolution so it would be the path to the civil war because let's face it in the industrial base in of the east they know that if they join the e.u. package they will of course they will never join the e.u. itself they would lose customs privileges in russia and their industrial goods which are still being exported to russia in increasing quantities would certainly become thirty five percent more expensive which would price them out of the market in the same time i doubt very much that e.u. countries would suddenly express an interest in buying ukraine real goods so even if there is an attempt at the violent overthrow of the government there would be

definitely a very sizable counterforce ready to come onto the streets it is no longer two thousand and four when no one was willing to risk their skin for. meanwhile there are fears the of coming so-called million man march could become fertile ground for a repeat of last weekend's violent unrest both the government and the opposition agree the riots were deliberately instigated but they differ on who's been behind them you know mcadams executive director of the rand paul institute think tank says such provocation is part of a pattern often used in coup attempts to see a pattern here of escalation in provocation we've seen it before in these previous revolutions i think really the protesters on the ground they had a very large public provocation a few nights ago and they were using chains and tractors and of course the police as police do everywhere reacted with violence the u.s. has counseled nonviolence but what would happen if someone drove a tractor and tried to drive it into the white house lawn you're going to tell me

that there wouldn't be violence against the one hundred thousand people trying to break into the white house so everywhere governments would normally protect their buildings. later today our team looks into the economic troubles ukraine faces in addition to the political crisis of venture capital with k.p. . how bad is ukraine's financial situation right now is the economy really heading for a de fault the markets are expecting it in dissipating in the vault i ukraine so it is a very serious situation in the ukrainian central bank. is almost broke and doesn't have any money and won't be able to support the ukrainian currency going forward unless you brain gets credit mediately.

residents of a tiny village an easter mania have managed to stop a u.s. oil giant exploring for shale gas near our worthy live at least for the moment the demonstrators are now refusing to leave the drilling side despite a heavy police presence saying the controversial extraction method could permanently damage the environment lucic off enough has the details. in a remote part of romania a day of rage and fury that. protesters stormed a work site operated by chevron and police responded with full force those who didn't leave willingly were dragged away so you can see actually in what country we are living the police forces are behaving like a private protection company thought of so wrong. but what the people here want to know is who will protect them from big business this is one of the poorest corners

of the european union but it's believed to sit on top of large reserves of valuable natural gas it's the sort of place that's changed a little over the centuries and most of the. residents still live off the land land which could soon be pumped full of toxic fluid in order to get the fuel underneath it's a simple everyday action drawing water out of the well for the villagers here and put in just this is really what's at the heart of the matter the environment and the water for them it's not so much about fighting chevron as it is about protecting both their lives and livelihoods which is the route through this all my years i have been working on the land it is the only live the time now. during the day isn't your typical sort of protester a farmer all her life she and her husband were also some of the first villagers to speak out against chevron's plans to drill for natural gas in their community. we've heard horror stories of water supplies being polluted forests no longer being

greedy we don't want to risk everything for this company to make a profit chevron says it's committed to working with the local community to drill without damaging the environment it insists that it is abiding by all safety rules but that's not reassuring for farmers like vassily. have a very good completely destroy us we just want to protect what's important in our land. and that's what they've done for more than a month now braving the cold to villagers set up makeshift tents across from the company's drilling site chevron did temporarily suspend its operations but last week the camp was raided by the police about the one i was punched in the face it was humiliating romanian but the police treated us like criminals i felt like we were found out who brought the retired ourselves together to form a human chain they were kicking ass and beating us with their bottoms i was kicked

here there is another religion who's in hospital now because of how hard they hit him in the stomach. and on saturday more violence what began as a peaceful demonstration was broken up by force another arrest the protests are at an end but demonstrators continue to get taken away in this car in some ways it's a case of david versus goliath a tiny romanian village fighting to get an energy giant chevron off of its land but despite the arrests despite the protests and despite the clashes the chevron trucks are already here and the work looks set to go on reporting input in jest romania for r t i'm lucy catherine. on thursday the world lost nelson mandela leader who fog racism and inequality in his own country to become an international symbol of freedom and justice packed

with controversy his transition from a vilified armed radical to a freedom fighter as been rango really polished by the mass media and hollywood as artie's policy or now reports. he's the man who proved it troubled and divided land back from the brink of civil war the man who after twenty seven tough years behind bars walked free from prison in his heart was not to avenge or i think that he's greatest legacy to this country is reconciliation. in the last three decades the world tirelessly polished the image of nelson mandela and image recognized around the world only coca-cola is better known better men who struggle for racial equality again south africa's ruling white minority had a dark side and world has conveniently forgotten about nelson mandela been leader of the struggle. a radical. someone.

embraced violence and as a necessary political instrument at a particular juncture in our history this house was the secret headquarters of the african national congress it was here in the early sixty's that mandela and his comrades launched the armed struggle it was also here that most of them were arrested put on trial and sentenced to life in prison south african journalist chris bishop believes the one nine hundred sixty four trial that saw mandela and his comrades sentenced to life helped turn the world in their favor during the trial. these gentlemen who were on draw the rivonia trial as they went from being the accused of being people in the dark as slowly transformed they became the benjamin franklin's of africa they became the freedom fighters that began the man of principle who is standing up merely for the rights of others and it's only to turn world opinion around from a vile terrorist to one of the greatest freedom fighters to have ever walked the

earth the story of nelson mandela is remarkable a man who stood up for the rights of people everywhere but also a familiar tale of governments putting a garland of flowers around your neck one day and a rope the next. r t johannesburg south africa. mandela was of course are now and for his inspirational speeches and on our website right now we have lined up some of his words that rarely make it to the mainstream media so i had to r.t. dot com for a look at what the iconic leaders thoughts were on america's influence in the world the invasion of iraq and the israeli palestinian conflict. and coming up on our t.v. and in she meant of a warder or car blog to clamp down critics of a new anti protest law in egypt fear it's a sign the country is turning into a police state plus. iceland forty's ease the debts of the your

country man in a unique solution to financial woes while millions in new york harbor on the edge of poverty. quite often in countries rich in natural resources are the poorest africa is a colony it's a colony of the big corporations it's a colony of someone's home leaders who are under the thumbs of the big corporations so they have to beg from the world bank's development of social programs goes to pay back debts all countries were drowning under the amount of debt that they had and so every year they would borrow money. and they would use that same amount of money to pay back oh that's. all that money really. the wages of debt. right from the

scene. first rate. and i think the church. on our reporters twitter. and instagram. could be in the know. on. the back to watching aren't he international sweden's been a key provider of spy data on their russian leadership. the u.s. apart from targeting high profile political figures the country's also been in gauged in industrial espionage against russia's and you companies the accusations come from swedish t.v. signing documents leaked by edward snowden in a recent program called mission investigate its chief editor told r.t. what they discovered we have revealed that. very close relationship

between the swedish defense radio authority f.r.a. and american counterpart n.s.a. and according to the documents. f.r.a. have spied spying on the russian leadership and they are passing this information on to n.s.a. we got access to these documents thanks to edward snowden so for we have don't have any details more than the documents are mentioning. they're talking about. intelligence they're talking about classic intel against and they also mentioning cables the spokesman of f.r.a. didn't give any comments but. when axed asked about being. seen as a leading partner that's the way they spell it in these documents for a is

a leading partner to n.s.a. then he says. that's flattering he says so that's the only comment we have received so far with with mr teacher location in the baltics the country has always been the envy of america's national security agency that's according to investigative journalist duncan campbell. sweden always had a rather covert intelligence relationship with stewart in the years of the cold war . very being turned secretly in to the club of the big far east in which they are for the gift of their prime minister in return for betraying we receive in security of all of their neighbors and money of her own citizens sweden was the largest collaborator in europe which the internet app and program run by every friday rights group are being greece between countries. so it does so because

of its. direct access to the baltic then it's no surprise that you see excuse going to say we want as well as everything else we can take from st well despite public criticism some governments protect thier spying programs is something essential earlier this week the editor of britain's guardian newspaper faced questioning by m.p.'s who believe that the publishing of snowden's revelations put a dand and national security journalist glenn moodie believes it's all part of a public flogging campaign it's theatre because it's actually for internal consumption it's really for the united kingdom and they view cameron is trying to demonstrate that he's the strong man that he's tough on terrorism that he's not going to let journalists you know tell him what to do and therefore he's coming out with these statements which for the rest of the world thinks pretty crazy because everyone is saying from president obama downwards that we should have this debate about what are the limits of surveillance and what kind of oversight should we have

and is really only david cameron and the u.k. government that's saying we shouldn't do that. and as a very important line and i say as appetite for private data seems only to be growing as a tentacles of u.s. intelligence continue to and twined the world after it successfully launches a new surveillance satellite with a logo of speaking for itself. plus join us on jermaine's holed up in ecuador's london embassy the world famous whistleblower marks his third years banned in virtual detention in the u.k. without having even been charged find all the details arity dot com. now iceland alive and taking the country's economy has rebounded after the recession which struck hard five years ago with a state treading its own path to financial well being instead of trying to save its bankrupt banks the government to lead them go to the wall for leadership then decided to reject

a last deposit repayment scheme swayed by protesters who said the plan was unfair instead every household in the country will now have twenty four thousand euros written off their mortgage banking executives accused of causing a crisis in the first place are also being pursued by the state professor of economics rodney shakespeare believes that iceland is setting a remarkable example. you must rely on your own national bank for your own uses for your own will economy for the spreading and if you don't do that you'll be trapped into debt in the same way that what you got greece you've got iceland but you've got every country in the world is being tracked into increasing debt and all that happens is that they increase the levels of the debt and smash the populations down we need to revolt against this global financial system and in its own way iceland is setting

a reasonable example thank you iceland. now the international monetary fund is criticizing us lending government's policy saying there's a little space left for additional dad relief measures and by leaving the insolvent banks to fan for themselves the country's already locked down its biggest creditors and her one to two of the biggest the u.k. and germany to gauge opinion. sounds great yeah it was just to get rid of your debt was perfect because then obviously you can spend that money was the real. thing he said he was helpless families just total that so it's a chunk of money that could make a difference which people well i think would be best for the country one reason the economy. is the public that just goes up and i don't think the country can afford it it would be very great to you know everyone could. think about this i think it's a good thing we used to have laws in germany where you could get subsidies as a home owner but that's a thing of the past this is ok you didn't get this i think for individual people it

would be good news but not for the country you never know where the money comes from for such gifts are considered controversial crisis breakaway plan is proving effective in helping people keep their heads above water but here is what happens when government measures fail today nearly a quarter of the population live under the threat of poverty that's more than one hundred twenty million people to have the latest additions to the block bulgaria and romania find ourselves topping the list of york sports european director for the international red cross anita underland says even the founding members of the e.u. are struggling more than ever the crisis really taking root at community level at individual level and that household eleven people today has so used all their savings there's nothing left. to take for used in what we call the middle class people the british red cross what they are doing right now and what they loans more

than the loans is the root is that because food distribution temp aim seems to say conclude or it is serious and even for the one so for us working in the space those on a daily basis we were shocked when we sold their cumulated data across europe. and in other world news now round one hundred supporters of the far right democratic party of germany have protested against asylum shelters for refugees in leipsic the march was said to and near one of the centers recently opened in the city but riot police stop them before they reached the facility the rally was met by anti-fascist activists chanting slogans about refugees being welcomed in the country. the central african republic has declared three days of mourning for the nearly four hundred people killed in recent fighting between christian militias and muslim rebels sixteen hundred french troops have been deployed there to stop the violence after the un authorized military intervention in the country meanwhile critics say

france is trying to solve its own domestic problems by getting involved in a military operation. egyptian activists are feeling the effect of the country's latest law which bans on authorized demonstrations two leading campaigners are set to go on trial charged with taking part in illegal gatherings arches belcher reports from cairo two leading secular activists ahmed may hand will be in court today for the first session of the trial they're being taunted to be protesting and for allegedly assaulting police officers in demonstrations last month the two men who were prominent voices in the january two thousand member revolution among the first to be trying for the offense related to egypt's new controversial protest though it was in force by the government last month and bones all ronnie's over ten people from gathering the information the ministry of interior there was most aprile when the law was promulgated as people here say most protests are against interior ministry and the brutality of that police force and that it would give

security forces a cop in the by let me disperse demonstrations this is something we certainly seen in the last few weeks security forces have used tear gas water cannons on birdshot but it's against protesters attempting to bonnie without permission of the government backed by the military and defending the legislation saying is essential to restore law and order and also to help egypt's talked of economy. the trial marks a key turning point in some of the minutes when the government had targeted islam is supposed to send a comment that would make a trial is showing that the government is widely is cracked down to include all forms of dissent leading people here in egypt to be in the country is returning to the states. and to hand in our team we examine their reasons for africa still crippled economies despite massive international financial aid.

we often see the middle east as a place of constant turmoil and revolution but people in thailand seem to be very fired up as well masses of protesters are force a government ministries to shut down by storming them with human waves one such ministry is the time equivalent of the american f.b.i. which has been accused of killing around ninety people in a crackdown on those who support ousted prime minister taksin shinawatra who is the brother of the current leader while people are crying out for democracy with accusations of violence against protesters so where is barack obama john kerry the mainstream media i mean whatever some group of rebels protestors are i mean freedom fighters rise up for democracy are we supposed to arm them like in syria and or bomb their country back into the stone age like in libya serbia iraq some protests explode across the mainstream media with calls for intervention and others are almost totally silent like thailand and bulgaria where there have also been strong links of buildings less than a month ago i might be

a conspiracy theorist but the selective coverage and selective concern for some humans rights and off the rights of others well it smells a bit fishy to me but that's just my opinion. the world bank and the international monetary fund africa finds itself crippled by foreign debt and remains of great poverty and inequality is. as long as we are in thrall to and dominated by debt i've even go so far as to say enslaved. there is no attention paid to social affairs like health and education can you imagine we have to sacrifice congolese children who have to die who cannot study because they have to pay for the debt. and the international community talks about generosity now they are talking about cancelling the debt as an act of generosity

by controlling the country's resources. that they say it is to keep countries with natural resources under control. it is used to control countries in the southern hemisphere both politically and economically. today we've got less than five percent of the world's population living in the united states consuming almost thirty percent of the resources and roughly half the world is living in poverty close to starvation are actually. that's.